We're now at the half way point of Jacksonville's big crowd-funding festival. It's day 3 of One Spark. YOU have an opportunity to pick your favorite creator by voting - and jurors also judge them in the competition for prize money. Today, Channel 4's Kumasi Aaron got to follow some jurors around. She and Kent Justice are joining us LIVE from one spark headquarters inside the The Museum of Contemporary Art .. Hello to you both, Kent .. you and Kumasi have been there every day .. tell us about the crowds .. as an almost 40 year jax resident .. I love hearing about crowds downtown. 3 3 45,000 people estimated for Thursday, 40,000 Wednesday. Expecting big weekend.Record day for skyway: 12,150 trips Thursday 9,650 Wednesday.Higher than last year. Joe Sampson announced that at 6pm at Hemming Plaza they will be announcing the creators who have seen the biggest move in votes from day to day in each category. 3 While we've been admiring While we've been admiring and voting These jurors have spent the > festival trying to decide which creator will get 10,000 Tough job one they take seriously and hope will really have a lasting impact on the creators chosen. 00-1015-1948-54TAKE NAT: With all the cool projects here at One Spark, it's hard to think about picking the best in each category.But that's what these people are tasked with.They are just 5 of the 15 jurors who will decide which creators will walk away with 10,000 dollars.JACK DEYOUNG/MUSIC JUROR 17:27:43-49 It's like how do you really judge music? It's tough to reconcile my own personal taste with you know the collective out here.Jack Deyoung is one of three judges in the music category, says it's about more than how a group sounds.JACK DEYOUNG/MUSI C JUROR 17:28:46-55 Potential commercial viability plays into it but also how as an art form do they believe in it is it something that is going to resonate with other people. TAKE NAT: 17:24:54 Not everybody's doing pitch decks, so we've literally made our way to their venues.We tagged along with Joy Randels, a technology juror, as she checked out some of the 91 technology creators she and her colleagues will have to narrow down.JOY RANDELS/TECH NOLOGY JUROR 17:24:07-22 Some you know it's really cool it's something that's unique. The jurors have worked in this space for a long time and we are subject matter experts in the tech arena so there are some like that there's others you have to ask a lot of questions because it may be a really great idea but you don't know if the team can execute. TAKE NAT: 17:26:58- 2700 How are you guys going to market it? Today she stopped by social network Hi-Fi for the first time, and took a second look at another social network Yubixi.JOY RANDELS/TECH NOLOGY JUROR 17:31:14-23 I got the low down on it and how people can engage with other surfers among certain things rather so good their both very disruptive I think technologies.TAKE NAT: 17:33:20-22 Your goal is to drive immediate traffic to the retailer? Next up, Five and fifty, a group working to allow business to send deals instantly to a targeted audience.With so many different ideas, and passionate creators, Randels hopes the final decision will be one that leaves a mark.JOY RANDELS/TECHNOLOGY JUROR 17:35:46-36:01 We want to look back at the end of the year next year when we come back around next year for one spark and say look at what that company did with the ten thousand dollars right it actually made an impact this is how they took that organization forward and they're actually making a difference and living their dream. Will make pick finalist tomorrow and give results to organizers tomorrow afternoon. On Sunday the finalists will present to the jurors here in hemming plaza it's going to be like shark tank.> Not only does the winner get 10000 but entry and airfare to one spark Berlin. CHAT WITH KUMASI AND KENT Channel 4 will continue to cover One Spark through Sunday. If you would like to watch some of our stories on the crowdfunding event - go to news-4-jax-dot-com and go to our One Spark section. It's on the right side of the homepage.

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